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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/7F43C959-B2E0-4EA4-870C-D8A1B7C8A8E6 | ||
| Year | 2019 | ||
| Type of Item | Master Thesis | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | Georgios Pachoumis, "Unattended ground sensors - applications in security and surveillance", Master Thesis, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Hellenic Army Academy, Chania, Greece, 2019 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.83911 | ||
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Since ancient times, surveillance and securing of areas, facilities and borders was a very important factor in the welfare and survival of a society. Locations of high economic and strategic importance, villages, city-states and military camps were essentially required to be guarded in some way, from any hostile force. Insufficient security or lack of information on possible intruders could often have catastrophic consequences.This situation hasn’t changed even nowadays, unfortunately, so adequate security, surveillance and collection of information of suspicious movement in proximity to areas of importance are still necessary today and it will probably be for centuries to come. The good news is that unlike what happened in the past, when the surveillance means were inexistent or primitive and inadequate and human presence was necessary, there are nowadays advanced and effective methods that accomplish the above purpose and they manage that with lower cost and less human resources.The subject of this dissertation is the manufacturing and utilization of Unattended Ground Sensors. By employing this method, the synthesis of a system of a multi-sensors' network becomes possible, for the purpose of surveillance of large areas or human and vehicle passages, with a very low cost. It ought to be mentioned that this application is characterized by minimum requirements in human resources and virtually zero need of equipment maintenance, in most cases. The energy requirement of such a system is also very small, which favors its use in inaccessible or remote areas.Moreover, a practical application of Unattended Ground Sensors will be presented, by building operational sample Sensors and a computer application for their interconnection with a Computer, in order for the data to be visualized and their effectiveness to be proven.Finally, conclusions and comments on their utilization will be presented, as well as ways of further improvement and more effective implementation.
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